With Rick Kleffel for KBCZ and KSQD (NorCal), 4/29/22
The Candy House may think the future, the past and the present are all traps, but by any name you care to summon, they still taste sweet.
Interviews for: The Candy House
Back to The Candy HouseGQ, with Clay Skipper, 4/11/22
“I was handwriting postcards to friends of friends, saying, ‘I have a reading, will you come?’”
PBS News Hour, with Jeffrey Brown, 4/29/22
“In a way, what the book does is simulate this experience of being in a collective consciousness and moving in and out of people’s minds.”
All Of It with Alison Stewart, 5/6/22
Get Lit, the WNYC book club: Live from WNYC’s Green Room, with audience questions:
The New York Times Book Review Podcast, with John Williams 4/29/22
“The only time any kind of radical structural form works is if I can find a story that can only be told that way. It involves a lot of waiting, and a lot of trial and error.”
Tricia Ford for Audible.com, 4/4/22
“I conceived of The Candy House as a book about space, and I think that’s why the word “house” is right in the title”
Barnes and Noble’s “Poured Over,” 4/7/22
“In the end, all the good ideas and fancy craft approaches get you absolutely nothing if there’s no emotional content.”
Tom Beer for Kirkus Reviews, 4/5/22
“I was a baseball mom for many years—I’d barely ever been to a baseball game before I had children, and I now have a pretty thoroughgoing knowledge of minor league baseball parks in America, and I’ve come to love baseball.”
NPR’s Morning Edition with Leila Fadel, 4/8/22
“The Candy House cautions: be careful of things that at first appear inviting”
Lynn Steger Strong in the Los Angeles Times, 4/3/22
“I guess to do something fully, you have to believe it will change everything.”
Andrew Chow in Time Magazine, April 30th, 2022
“I know it’s all there in my mind—so why can I see some memories and not others?”
Lauren Mechling in Vogue, April 2022
“It’s fascinating how to visit a place is to visit all the times you’ve been in that place. Spaces hold stories.”
Publisher’s Weekly, 2/28/22
“The sheer imagination, adventure, and majesty of Egan’s writing is impossible to quantify.”
The New Yorker Q&A, 12/27/21
The author discusses “What the Forest Remembers,” her story from the latest issue of the magazine.